Date: Mon, 1 Nov 1999 13:58:38 +0000 (GMT) From: Rob Hartill <robh@imdb.com> To: Steve Gailey <Steve.Gailey@db.com> Cc: mobile@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: IBM Thinkpad 600 Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.96.991101134731.29334A-100000@uk2.imdb.com> In-Reply-To: <199911010942.JAA09689@pow.srv.uk.deuba.com>
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On Mon, 1 Nov 1999, Steve Gailey wrote: > Has anyone had any success installing FreeBSD 3.X on one of > these beasts? > > The machine just hangs and needs a physical reset during the > probes, just after finding the CD. I have tried disabling not required > for the install, but without any success. > > I am booting FreeBSD 3.3, from floppy (CD didn't work as it got > confused about the disks). It does find the Hdd and CD-ROM ok, > but hangs after that. > > Thanks for any help. I have a Thinkpad 770 that showed similar hanging problems. The cause is the Thinkpad's use of about 0.5mb of its memory for itself. You need to boot with a kernel that doesn't try to use memory that's reserved for the hardware. When the Thinkpad boots, look to see how much memory is available. If you can, create a boot disk with a kernel that has MAXMEM set to this number then you should be ok. I have 128mb (MAXMEM=131072) in my thinkpad but the kernel is configured with MAXMEM=130496 (=127.4mb). Maybe there's a boot option that'll let you set this so that you can use an existing boot disk. -- Rob Hartill Internet Movie Database (www.moviedatabase.com). An Amazon.com company. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-mobile" in the body of the message
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